Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

- Chilo

Best Quotes about Honesty

1.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

2.

Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.

3.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

4.

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Marden, Orison Swett

5.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

6.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Otway, Thomas

7.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

8.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Ruskin, John

9.

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

10.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Lyly, John

11.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

12.

Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

13.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

14.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

15.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Ash, Mary Kay

17.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

18.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

19.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides

21.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

22.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

23.

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

24.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Pamela Ribon

25.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

27.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

28.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

29.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

James, William

30.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

31.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

32.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

33.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

34.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]

Bible

35.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

37.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Sugarman, Joseph

39.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Moustakas, Clark

41.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

42.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.